From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, a memoir of how a neoconservative movement insider became a dissenter.
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Tucker Carlson’s Long, Strange Trip
From bow-tied neocon to flannel-clad conspiracist, a once-talented writer becomes a promulgator of MAGA bilge.
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The Courage and Compromises of George P. Shultz
When he died, at the age of 100, in 2021, George P. Shultz was widely hailed as a consummate pragmatist who represented a type of sober conservatism that has been almost entirely eradicated in the modern Republican Party. A charter member of the foreign policy establishment, he occupied four cabinet positions, including secretary of labor […]
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The Crocodile Tears of Neoconservatives
They are feeling uprooted from the GOP in the face of white nationalism, but their moral failures opened the door for Trump’s takeover.
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Why is Bill Kristol Promoting an Oprah Winfrey Presidential Campaign?
Why the hell is he with her? William Kristol’s cheerleading for an Oprah Winfrey presidential run is arguably the most disturbing non-Trump development of the new year. Notwithstanding my skepticism about celebrity involvement in politics, if Winfrey is actually serious about running, she should disavow the Kristol vision in the strongest terms possible. It’s fairly […]
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On Political Books
The literature of “neoconservatism,” which has built up in magazines like Commentary and The American Spectator over the last half-dozen years, deals at one level with public policy, but its emotional power springs from another source. Whether the stated object of discussion is racial quotas and ‘affirmative action,” nuclear versus solar power, or America’s response […]
